claudia bosse / theatercombinat

17.03.-28.09.2025 / WASTELAND dream/s - a chronicle on choreographic ground by claudia bosse on the wasteland behind the main station between karl-popper-straße and alfred-adler-straße, 1100 wien

publication:
excerpt HAUNTED LANDSCAPE on an unseen wasteland 
- request a copy here

projects of the series:
LANDSCAPE/S

haunted landscape/s

entanglement with a haunted forest

haunted landscape/s - about inner and outer landscapes

HAUNTED LANDSCAPE on an unseen wasteland

HAUNTED LANDSCAPES or the breathing out of earth

WASTELAND dream/s - a chronicle on choreographic ground
by claudia bosse

17.03.-28.09.2025
from march to september 2025, a wasteland behind vienna's main railway station will be transformed into an artistic space: claudia bosse’s project WASTELAND dream/s - a chronicle on choreographic ground explores the transformation and fragility of urban landscapes in the anthropocene over the course of several months.

choreographic field work will take place during the following days on the wasteland behind vienna’s main station:
march 17-21
april 14-18
may 19-23
june 16-20
july 7-18
august 18-30
september 11-28  

in these regular work phases, ongoing choreographic and artistic gestures, performative and installative experiments are created on site. the wasteland becomes a choreographic ground in which the dialog between artists, experts, the local population and non-human actors becomes visible in performative formats. over the months, the project condenses into performances for which the site is starting point, studio, framework and condition.  

the performative articulations on the wasteland dissolve the boundaries between art and everyday life, make invisible structures visible and encourage participation. they foster an understanding of public space as a designable, shared place and open up a new view of urban landscapes and their layers through the gradual transformation of the unnoticed area. 

in dialog with the constantly changing terrain, a work of art forms, changes and evolves over the seasons in public space.
this leftover space in the middle of the city, framed by rails and roads, marked by facades, hotels and offices, populated by grasses, butterflies and thistles, also served as the setting for HAUNTED LANDSCAPE on an unseen wasteland in 2024.  

dates
choreographic field work:
march 17-21
april 14-18
may 19-23
june 16-20
july 7-18
august 18-30
september 11-28

next opening for visitors: april 18

premiere: september 24, 2025

on the wasteland behind the main station
between karl-popper-straße and alfred-adler-straße,
1100 vienna

photos: markus gradwohl. please click for slideshow!

chronicle
choreographic field work part I
march 17-21, 2025

with choreographic measurements we approach the overgrown ground. what is physical presence on the 2500 m2 site? how can it reach up onto the skin of the buildings? what are the rhythms of moving bodies in urban space and what resonance do the sounds of the city have in the body? gestures of orientation as relationships to the vertical structures from the underground via the built structures up to the sky. what movements can arise from the grown structures of different plants and how can these be transferred into the space? how do organic (moving) structures meet the rigid orientation of a line running through the space. does the line create time in space? the steps on the blossoming blue speedwell.
a first white butterfly for the spring ritual.

a ritual for the arrival of spring
on march 21st at 5:30 pm 

for the first opening of our choreographic field work, we welcomed spring, with the insects to come yet sleeping in the ground, the birds that will sing and the pomegranate seeds we shared. 

to accept the seasons, we gave flowers and milk to the space, said goodbye to the winter with fire, drank wine, listened to the sounds and launched our journal.  

spring ritual with: su huber, carla rihl, claudia bosse & lucia mauri
sound: LOVE - 64 mating calls of a nightingale for cello von noid haberl
speculative insect walk: dr. thomas zuna-kratky  
publication launch HAUNTED LANDSCAPE on an unseen wasteland with free copies during the event

WASTELAND dream/s - a chronicle on choreographic ground
by claudia bosse

performance: su huber, lucia mauri, lena schattenberg, carla rihl
sound: günther auer
dramaturgy: krassimira kruschkova
production/assistant: juliana furthner, larry mey
production assistant: ines kaiser
communication: juliana furthner 

a production by theatercombinat. funded by the city of vienna culture and the federal ministry of arts, culture, public service and sport as part of the concept funding of theatercombinat 2022-2025. in cooperation with ÖBB. in collaboration with belvedere 21. 

PROJECTS of haunted landscape/s:
haunted landscape/s is a multi-format series by claudia bosse (2024/2025) in collaboration with various artists with/about/through wounded landscapes.
WASTELAND dream/s - a chronicle on choreographic ground is part of it. in HAUNTED LANDSCAPES or the breathing out of earth claudia bosse occupied the stage of tanzquartier wien at the end of october 2024 as a walk-in, performative environment, together with different materials, 5 performers and the sounds of günther auer. in HAUNTED LANDSCAPE on an unseen wasteland, a central residual area became an urban laboratory and venue for a series of visual, musical and performative interventions by claudia bosse with public performance school PPS and invited artists. in the field research project haunted landscape/s - about inner and outer landscapes as part of impulstanz, claudia bosse and the participating dancers explored relationships to landscapes, organisms and movements on unstable ground. claudia bosse's installation entanglement with a haunted forest interwoven with the forest opened mahler forum 2024 in june 2024 with a musical commentary by günther auer. between the built, the grown, the present and the past, the installation in the forest is freely accessible until the end of october. haunted landscape/s was developed as a site-specific performance with 3 dancers and 2 movement choirs in may 2024 for a derelict building site and ultimately ended in a multimedia installation. in october 2023, claudia bosse developed LANDSCAPE/S as part of the project celebrating trouble. choreographic convention in timișoara (romania) - a lecture performance as an installative spread that became a performative landscape.

the haunted landscape/s series was created as part of the 2022-2025 concept funding programme by stadt wien kultur, the federal ministry of arts and culture, public service and sport, with the support of the district of donaustadt, mahler forum 2024, KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien and in cooperation with belvedere 21, impulstanz, jugend am werk, wien 3420 and ÖBB.

the cycle ORGAN/ismus - poetics of relations combines modules, motives and methods for the realization of different artistic formats and at the same time wants to build or expand structures. because we can only realize those works for which we are able to find or invent structures.